Man gets life imprisonment for raping daughter

A 36-year-old man was on Saturday sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his 12-year-old daughter twice at his residence at Kurichi Pirivu near Sundarapuram here in November 2013. Pronouncing the judgement, the district Mahila court has also fined him 5,000.

TNN | Jun 5, 2016, 07:06 IST

Coimbatore: A 36-year-old man was on Saturday sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his 12-year-old daughter twice at his residence at Kurichi Pirivu near Sundarapuram here in November 2013. Pronouncing the judgement, the district Mahila court has also fined him 5,000. The convict, identified as R Hakkim, was into fish selling and scrap business. He resided at a rental house at Kurichi Pirivu along with his wife and two daughters aged 12 and 11 years. His wife used to help him with scrap business, while daughters were students of a private school in the locality.

On November 9, 2013, his two daughters went to sleep after lunch. His wife was outside the house, after locking the front door of the house, segregating iron scrap. Hakkim was sleeping on the floor.

When she went inside the house about an hour later, she found her husband raping her elder daughter. The mother chided the girl and rebuked her for not raising any alarm when her father tried to rape her.

The girl revealed that her father had raped her on November 5, 2013, when she was alone at the house. Hakkim had threatened to desert her and her mother, if she were to reveal the incident to anyone.

"The girl was in a state of shock. Her mother first approached a Jamath and later lodged a complaint with Podanur police, who registered a case against Hakkim under Section 5 (n) (relative of a child through blood committing penetrative sexual assault) and 6 (punishment for penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act," said R Sarojini, special public prosecutor for Mahila court. The case was later transferred to Ramanathapuram (east) all-woman police, who arrested Hakkim and lodged him in Coimbatore central prison. Hakkim, however, came out on bail.

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